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I would have expected the % of 1024x users to be higher. I also think the numbers are skewed by the votes for "other" which is partly my fault as the question on the poll top should have had the words "when browsing" included as did the first message post. I think a number of the votes in other were by those using resolution above 1024 for design purposes rather than general surfing.

For those using higher than 1024 on 17" monitors if you keep it up you probably will have trouble reading 800x600 in large font in 10 years.

I really don't like 1280x1024 because the aspect ratio is not square (ie the pixels are slightly wider than square).

I usually use the internet in 1024x768 because so many sites use that annoying tiny verdana font, and nobody designs for 1152x864 so it's no problem using 1024x768

By the way - to those who use 640x480 - WOW! That is so wacky. I can read text in 640x480 from across the room. That is lower than television resolution (here in australia). I don't know what to say. Obviously I don't hate you for using that res -

But you must be incovenienced by the way the world's top sites all use tables widths wider than 640 (take sitepoint - or even yahoo).

I use 1024x768 with small fonts myself. I too don't see how you can use 640x480 especially for design. With Photoshop or Visual Basic on that resolution, you hardly have any work space room with the toolbars and tabs. And I too have seen people with wacky resolutions and layouts simply becuase they don't know how to change it. Look at a school computer lab, they usually have weird sizes of about everything sizeable.

On a 21 inch Mitsubishi DiamondPro which is usually hooked up to a Mac, I usually have the monitor set to 1152 x 870 @ 100MHz although if my eyes are getting tired or I am crusing the web in a more reclined posture I sometimes take it down a gear to 1024 x 768 @ 100 MHz and only sometimes when I want to get a more screen real estate do I go up to 1280 x 1024 (because my old video card only supports 75Mhz at that resolution - gets tiring on the eyes).

Until i read this thread, I was commited to 800*600 w/ religous fervour.

I was always frustrated when using Dreamweaver or Fireworks because the toolbars where always getting in the way. It never occured to me that changing the screen res would change that - doh!

Anyway, I upgraded to 1024*768. What a difference! Small fonts where a little hard on the eyes for me at this res, so I changed the defualt to 125% (Not sure, but this may be an option unique to win2k).

Perfect!

I've always designed for 800*600. I've recently scrapped using tables and am now using <div> for layout (thanks to the article here at sitepoint). I'm planning on using client side script to reference a different stylesheet depending on the screen resloution & browser.